Biomedical Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
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S. Federici, F. Meloni, and F. Corradi
CONTENTS
2.1 What Individual Functioning Measures .......................................................................... 25
2.1.1 The Best Measure: Is There an Elixir of Measurements for Turning an
Assessment into Gold? ............................................................................................ 25
2.1.1.1 Fitting Measure for the Purpose of the Assistive Technology
Assessment ................................................................................................. 28
2.1.1.2
From the Measures to the Purposes (Well-Being), from the
Purposes to the Measurers (Multidisciplinary Team) ......................... 29
2.1.1.3 What Is Measured Versus Who Measures: Balancing the Power
of the Assessment ..................................................................................... 30
2.2 How to Measure Individual Functioning ........................................................................ 31
2.2.1
Guidelines for Measurement and Assessment .................................................... 31
2.2.2
Measurement and Assessment in the ATA Process ........................................... 32
2.2.3
Monitoring Individual Functioning in the Context of an AT Use: The
Outcome of the ATA Process.................................................................................. 34
2.3 Suggested Measurement Tools for an ATA Process ....................................................... 35
2.3.1
Outcome Analysis Tools ......................................................................................... 39
2.4 Conclusions ........................................................................................................................... 42
Summary of the Chapter .............................................................................................................. 43
References ....................................................................................................................................... 44
2.1 What Individual Functioning Measures
2.1.1 The Best Measure: Is There an elixir of Measurements
for Turning an Assessment into gold?
In June 2001, the U.N. International Seminar on the Measurement of Disability brought
together a large number of experts in disability measurement from developed and devel-
oping countries to review the current status of methods used in population-based data
collection activities to measure disability in national statistical systems (UN 2001). The
seminar developed recommendations and priorities to advance work on the measurement
of disability. In particular, the seminar improved principles and standard forms for global
indicators of disability for use in censuses and helped to build a network of institutions
and experts given the broad consensus on the need for population-based measures of
disability for countrywide use and international comparisons. The U.N. international
seminar experts selected the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and
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